Wallpaper

Object Name:

Wallpaper

Object ID:

1969.072.02

Date:

1900-1930

Description:

Wallpaper fragment, less than one repeat. Colonial Revival style. Floral stripe based on an 18th-century pattern adapted from a textile design. Pale blue-grey (537) vertical bands alternate with a wider grey (413-414) band, embellished with dark blue (286) dots and scallops, white anthemia, red-brown (181) dashes, and white flowers with red-brown border, blue centers, blue, and grey shading. Machine-printed, ungrounded, thin, slightly acidic paper. Machine-printed, thin-bodied, water soluble pigments. Fragment may have come from the end of a roll; at one end, along width, are two wide pieces of masking tape. Some staining on reverse. Paper never used.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-16.6 W-13.35 inches

Provenance:

Part of collection of wallpapers from house called Chandler Farm, Concord, NH, purchased by donor in 1932 and occupied by Lydia Ann Tenney Little and husband George Little who took it over about 1900. For details on house and history of ownership, see Accession File. Used during 1846-1932.

Credit Line:

Gift of Doris F. Purvis

People:

Tenney, Jonathan (1817-1888), Tenney, Daniel (1819-1899), Purvis, Doris F. (1899-1988)

Subjects:

Flowers